The biggest winners from the Conservatives' help to buy scheme were high-earners who were already likely to buy a house, with the top 10% of earners receiving the largest cash benefit.
Taylor Morrison's Q1 2026 performance reflects a strategic intent to prioritize customer conviction over transactional coercion, emphasizing a mindset of winning hearts and minds rather than competing solely on price.
Investors own roughly one in six of California's single-family residences. That's what my trusty spreadsheet found after reviewing a BatchData report that estimates investor ownership of houses and townhomes nationwide. Investors in this study include everything from giant companies controlling thousands of houses to folks with a small collection of rentals to short-term rental operators to people with a second home.